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The JHU site is comparing apples to oranges, and you're buying the fruit salad. Positive cases and Deaths are two entirely separate domains with different timelines. It only makes sense to compare the total figures when the epidemic is done and dusted. Try to visualize a single victim who...

While the average Russian might agree with your reason, I can't see anything wrong with the Russian to date numbers: April 21 cases = 52763 (-21 days) April 28 cases = 93558 (-14 days) May 12 deaths = 2116 (2.3% with average 14 days to death, 4% if you assume 21 days to death) The number of...

😲 Do you replace a sacrificial anode every few years? Is your water soft or hard?

It's probably been obvious to virus researchers for ages, but there doesn't appear to be much chance of SARS-CoV-2 ever going away. I think it's here to stay, regardless of any potential vaccines or treatments. 1. We have only ever managed to eradicate one virus: Smallpox. 2. The concept of...

Actually, new cases has only dropped below 10 per day once in the last 14 days. The count today was 18. The bullsh*t factor is pretty high, the highlight being a claim by our Prime Minister that Australia had done better than New Zealand (which had a more comprehensive lockdown). In fact...

Swedish water has no minerals?

That would assume that consumers are able and willing to vote with their feet. I'm afraid that's an illusion that is used to brainwash the citizenry. Even for items that aren't imported directly from China, it still forms key parts of the supply chain. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the...

I've made this point before, but Wet Market is just another term for Farmers' Market. Perhaps these aren't very common in the Land of the Supermarket, but they are everywhere else on the planet. I found this reprint of a Bloomberg opinion piece was a reasonable injection of reality That...

Your first problem here is that deaths operate on a different time scale to positive test results. Deaths are spread over a number of weeks (the record is 7 weeks) but average two weeks behind when someone tests positive. When the true number of cases is increasing rapidly (eg 70 times in 14...

A little surprised that no-one mentioned that the British Prime Minister, who has had COVID-19 for 10 days, was admitted to hospital. A day later, he was moved to the ICU: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52194875 I looked it up, and whereas you might normally fancy your chances of coming out the...

BBC News Report: St Thomas' Hospital has experience in treating coronavirus patients in its ICU. For extremely serious cases it can use a life support machine called ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) which replaces some of the function of the heart and lungs. There are only a handful of...

It's a scam.

I've observed that people who actually follow political parties or politicians behave much the same as sports fans, football (of whatever type) in particular. They are constantly vigilant about anyone making *any* kind of comment about someone in their 'team' and will quickly attack in...

It seems there is not really a large difference in death rates as you might think by just looking at current data. Some (including the now infamous WHO) are just dividing cumulative deaths into cumulative confirmed cases. This is meaningless while the epidemic is still underway because it takes...

Yes, the US has finally got their testing regime underway and we are seeing some results. Two problems: a) the US has several times the population of most other countries so will need to do several times more tests, and b) it is starting from a far higher population penetration, so it will need...

If you believe the American numbers you must be an American. It's pretty easy to show that the reported cases are a fraction of actual cases. Not through deception like China, but sheer lack of testing. Source? While looking for one I found this gem of an article from 28 days ago...

Actually, a stronger immune system is potentially a liability with COVID-19. It has that in common with its cousin, SARS. It's actually an overreaction from your immune system that causes the really severe symptoms such as pneumonia and organ failure. How fit you are or how few colds you seem...

Relevant article for US, UK and Australian citizens about one town in Italy showing how it's done: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-21/one-italian-town-is-bucking-the-countrys-coronavirus-curve/12075048

I have had some minor cold/flu symptoms for more than a week, and I have underlying conditions that make me vulnerable. The severe rationing of tests in Oz means there is no way I can get one, unless I develop pneumonia. And as you say, if I somehow could get a test, it takes a week to get the...

Left relatively unconstrained, the numbers have been shown to double about every 4 days. So one million reported in the USA by the end of April is by no means impossible. However, I assume there will be a total lockdown in the next couple of weeks, which should limit the end of the month to a...

Agreed. It typically takes years after the event to reconstruct the zoonotic leap. And for all we know the virus mutated when it spread from say, Patient Zero to the next victim. Cap all that off with the information black hole that is China.

Not sure about some of your numbers here. Firstly, it's worth pointing out that the Aussie dollar is only worth 59 US cents. So everything costs about 2/3 more than it does in the US (excluding the 10% sales tax or GST). Secondly, the minimum repayment is on a sliding scale; a graduate making...

You're repeating a furphy. The first COVID-19 case was never anywhere near that market, it's just that the congregation of people at the market created the first cluster, and people naturally enough jumped to conclusions. There's no shortage of things to condemn China about, but getting excited...

Youtube suggested this today: It's a TedTalk from nearly five years ago where, in the aftermath of Ebola, Bill Gates says the biggest risk to the human race is a virus. Check out the sixty seconds starting from 3:40. He did some interviews on the same theme in 2015 as well.

Apparently 9 days on hard surfaces (glass, metal, plastic) is not uncommon for coronaviruses. No idea where the tale about only nine hours came from - just more of the avalanche of bullsh*t that has been generated by incompetent 'health professionals'. You may have heard of the somewhat...

If you believe the official stats, the most dangerous country in the world to catch COVID-19 is the USA: 260 cases and already 14 deaths. Although there are valid criticisms of how the US healthcare system works in this sort of situation, I imagine the ratio is partly inflated due to gross...

I think that what is happening on the quarantined cruise ship, Diamond Princess, is a microcosm of what is likely to come. From Wikipedia: On 20 January 2020 an 80-year-old guest from Hong Kong embarked in Yokohama, sailed one segment of the itinerary, and disembarked in Hong Kong on 25...

The first link is a puff piece (i.e. bullsh*t), the second includes a quote that says a vaccine is at least a year away, and that's assuming a large pharmaceutical company is onboard. China might be 'out of the woods' in a few months, but the epidemic has yet to even get going in other...

That's gold, thanks. The card is already setup with its own software to debit the balance - their target market is simple financial cards. The cards have different states, one of those being a 'manufacturing' state that enables full access. That is permanently disabled before shipping.

Actually, it is when the virus is this contagious, thanks to geometric progression. If you start with 5 (a few), after one week there will be 100, and after two weeks there will be 2000 (based on each person infecting 2 - 2.5 others, or so I've read ...). I'm not remotely interested in "global...

I'll see your Feitian and raise you an ACOS5. Also 192kB with 500k+ write cycles, as well as RSA 4096 and SHA 512. Any comments about relying mainly on software?

Borders are too porous, according to most of the published experts. They're basing that on historical experience, which is pretty easily confirmed: SARS was stopped but Swine Flu and the common cold were definitely not. Are they really saying that humans can't cooperate enough to make a...

Closing borders works with something like SARS, which has a short incubation, is not contagious until symptoms appear, and is over within about 6 days (17% mortality rate in Canada). This virus is nothing like SARS. The guesstimate is only about 2% mortality, BUT it seems to have a longer...

We sell a service that is metered, with a running balance currently stored on a prepaid Smartcard. The balance gets debited as you use the service, until it is exhausted and you need to buy a new card. It's reasonably secure, but we have to burn a balance onto the cards and ship them around the...

Unfortunately, if you're snowhiker, or even someone like me or Chewy, the only backup is a portable fan or 5. They really don't work as well. :(

HWMonitor, ThrottleStop and TaskManager. I don't have all that much faith in any of them - after all, it's an internal CPU function and they're just trying to capture evidence of what's happening inside the CPU. I also don't have much faith in Cinebench R15, particularly the OpenGL test. When I...

Under Windows 10 especially, I notice that even single threaded tasks get swapped from core to core, presumably for thermal reasons? Combined with the sheer amount of crud that is running in the background these days, I wonder how effective a single or even dual core 'turbo boost' actually is...

I had some success in avoiding the worst of the throttling by undervolting the CPU. Intel XTU no longer works with many CPUs, so I used ThrottleStop instead. Undervolting by 0.1V was enough to re-align the steps. You can also fiddle with the clock steps, although Speed Shift uses that more as...

I think I understand some of this new world now. Whether a CPU is an i5 or an i7 is just a function of binning, eg. an i5 requires more voltage to be stable at the same frequency, so Intel reduces the i5 clocks at each step to compensate. Eg. i7-8565U ranges from 1.8GHz @15W to 4.6GHz max...

What's even worse is the Configurable TDP-up on that same spec page. That's an alternative TDP of 25W at a frequency of just 2.0GHz! Intel must be doing some serious undervolting (-18%) at the base clock of 1.8GHz to get it down to 15W. Configurable TDP-up is better with the 10th generation...

We have an identical one coming back at the end of the month, so I will compare with it. In the meantime, I need to order another one, but for some reason I have some doubts ...

CPU is Intel i7-8565U (4-core 8-thread 1.8-4.6GHz 8MB cache), which seems to be one of Intel's 'fake' 15W CPUs. That is, they *claim* 15W TDP but in practise these things easily pull 30W (according to CPU ID HWMonitor) - and that's with massive thermal throttling. The icing on the cake is that...

Late Christmas for us - hadn't seen our second daughter for 3 1/2 years, but she's visiting Australia for a few weeks. Other than that, work gave me a whole leg of ham (no idea what to do with this, I suspect it's better to bake it with a glaze). Standout food included tons of tiny savory...

Quick Update The prison was designed to have WiFi, but it's not in use. No successful business case to date involving WiFi, given that security relies more on physical barriers than configuration. Also, internal walls are kinda thick and filled with concrete, so range would be severely...

Chewy, yes. :) Really great advice, thanks. I would definitely prefer a cabled solution, but I wonder how how hard that might be to organize in this environment? Everything would have to be done by the prison's own contractors and that is likely to take a very long time and be very expensive...

Superficially, Zigbee seems a little too similar to 2.4GHz WiFi to pass the sniff test. Z-Wave looks extremely interesting, particularly given the lower 900MHz frequency and greater range to start with. Has to be at least double the range through heavy walls, maybe more. So far, I couldn't find...

This is a real life puzzle that I'm trying to get my head around. In a prison, communications with the outside world such as internet access are generally prohibited or tightly controlled. Consequently, PCs may have any wireless adapter removed and USB ports disabled or severely limited. We...

Either just audio or full video. I lived with Skype for Business for four years; I have no desire to repeat this. What other products do people recommend or hate? Sharing (presenting) a screen is really helpful, but I'm having trouble working out which products even do this.

Gmail/GSuite still lets you disable that annoyance: Settings - Google Account Settings - Security - Less secure app access AFAIK, it's only useful if your phone is stolen - and you don't have a lock on your phone. Happy for someone to logically explain how a separate password helps otherwise.

Mind Boggling.